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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Allwyn M. Sequeira, Saratoga, CA (US);
Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Debashis Basak, Saratoga, CA (US);
Akshatha Sathyanarayan, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of deploying a virtual network function of a network service in a data center having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources of the data center to at least one tenant, includes generating at least first and second API calls to the cloud computing management software in response to external commands received at the data center to deploy a virtual network function, and executing at least the first and second API calls by the cloud computing management software to deploy the virtual network function. The cloud computing management software creates at least one virtual machine by executing the first API call and at least one virtual disk by executing the second API call.